Image above: performance in the Artistic Research Working group of PSi in Fortaleza 14.12.2025, photo Jamie Davidson.
Out right now
“Duration through Repetition – Revisiting as Method”, HUB – Journal of Research in Art, Design and Society, 5 (2025) https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/2797281/2797282/0/0
“Walking in the Woods.” Global Performance Studies 7 (2) (2024). https://doi.org/10.33303/gpsv7n2a122
Arlander, Annette & Pilvi Porkola “Performance” in Karin Murris & Mirka Koro (eds.) Interpretation in Qualitative Research. Key Concepts in Qualitative Methods Routledge 2026. (See here)
Ongoing events
Talking with Trees – Puhetta Puille – Talar med Träd a podcast on Soundcloud, here
Animal Years via qr codes on location on Harakka Island, see map here
Upcoming events
“Artist-in-Residence with Wind, Trees and Breath”, Amaara Raheem and Annette Arlander, The Ecosomatic Conversation Series 6.5.2026 https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/3022557/3979879
Upcoming talks and presentations
Joining Junipers – presentation, University of the Arts Helsinki Research Institute 21.1.2026.
Invited speaker at Art in Context, University of Agder, Kristiansand, NO 10-12.6.2026 https://www.artsymposium-uia.com
Forthcoming publications
“Citizen Pine – conversation with city trees”, Ruukku Studies in Artistic Research Dreaming the city for real
“Video Essays with Trees – Four ‘Models’ and Some Examples” in Critical Filmmaking: Creative Practice Research in the Screen Industries, edited by Dr. Catherine Gough-Brady and Dr. Alexander Nevill.
“Revisiting the Pines” in a book edited by Dr. Mira Kallio-Tavin and Mirka Koro PhD.
Current engagements
Visiting researcher at Academy of Fine Arts, University of the Arts Helsinki, see here
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Recent exhibitions, events and performances
“With the Juniper on Fredhäll Cliff” (performance response) in the Artistic Research Working Group of PSi (Performance Studies International) at the PSi #30 conference XXX – Cruzo, Cruising, Crossroads in Fortaleza, Brasil 11-15.12.2025.
Recent talks, papers and presentations
Joining Junipers at the Crossroads (presentation) in the Artistic Research Working Group of PSi (Performance Studies International) at the PSi #30 conference XXX – Cruzo, Cruising, Crossroads in Fortaleza, Brasil 11-15.12.2025.
Recent publications
“Sunnuntait männyn kanssa – performanssia ja performatiivista kirjoitusta” [Sundays with a Pine – performance and performative writing ] in Pilvi Porkola (ed.) Kirjeitä ja Meritähtiä: Näkökulmia performatiiviseen kirjoittamiseen [Letters and Starfish – Perspectives on Performative Writing] Nivel 22, pp. 57-73 https://urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978-952-353-100-0
Completed projects
Participating in Gifts from the Sentient Forest, see project website and my personal archive on the RC
Pondering with Pines (2022-2024), see Uniarts website separate blog and an archive on the RC here
Meetings with Remarkable and Unremarkable Trees (2020-2021), see Uniarts website, a separate blog and an archive on the RC here
How to do things with performance? – Miten tehdä asioita esityksellä?, a four-year (five year) research project funded by the Academy of Finland, with Hanna Järvinen, Tero Nauha and Pilvi Porkola (2016-2021). More info on the Uniarts website of HTDTWP with links to blog and an archive on the RC.
Previous engagements and rewards
One of the three Uniarts alumni of the year 2023, see news here
Member of the Committee for Artistic Research at the Swedish Research Council 2018-2021.
Member of the editorial board of Ruukku – Studies in Artistic Research 2012 – 2021.
Professor of performance, art and theory at Stockholm University of the Arts Research Centre (2018-2019),
Member of the board of the Norwegian Artistic Research Program (2015-2018)
State Prize for multidisciplinary art 2018 see notice